//------------------------------// // Chapter five // Story: The Dark One Has Risen // by Rob_Rhapsody //------------------------------// ---Mamoru's room, right after Celestia put him to bed--- "Ok folks I may be breaking the fourth wall here, but if I'm following my timeline correctly it seems in a few days, discord escapes, so I'm going to do something really stupid, I'm gonna make a deal with him" ---one hour later--- Mamoru's POV--- location: six feet from Discord--- I began casting a telepathy spell on the statue of discord. 'Alright that should do it, YO, DISCORD CAN YOU HEAR ME' I thought. -feedback noise- 'Aaah, Owie, yes I can hear you, what do you want!?! And did you have to think that so loud?' He responded. "Ha ha ha" I laughed. 'To answer your second question, Yes, I did it to annoy you, and to see if there would be a feedback sound effect, and the answer to your first is, I wanna make a deal' I told him. 'What kind of deal?' asked Discord. 'Well, not to long from now there will be a field trip from Ponyville' I told him. 'Yeah, so what?' He said. 'Well three little fillies will have a little argument about you, causing a chain reaction that will release you' I said. 'Oh if thats true, I'm going to have a lot of fun very soon, but what does this have to do with you' said Discord. I just smiled evilly. 'If you can impale me with some of your magic, that will give me a little piece of your magic, just enough for my body to absorb and produce on its own, thats all I want, in return I won't tell Celestia's favorite pupil the answer to your riddle, I will give you a signal for when I want you to impale me' I said. 'Intriguing, what kind of signal may I ask' replied Discord. 'I'll say impale me, simple as that, it won't kill me because I can regenerate, oh, and aim for the chest, I wanna see the look on the ponies' faces' I said with a cheshire grin. 'Wow, you are scary... but what happens after that' asked Discord. 'The deal will be done and we go our separate ways, how's that sound' I asked. 'Hmm... alright it's a deal, I would shake your hand, but I can't at the moment since I'm made of stone' said Discord. 'Good one, now all we both have to do now is wait, see you later Discord' I said as I broke the spell's connection, waved goodbye and walked away into the night. ---the day Discord escapes--- after his riddle--- ---Twilight POV--- "Twists and turns, twists and turns, twists and turns, that's it, I bet Discord hid the elements in the palace labyrinth" said Twilight taking a look out of the window. "Good luck my little ponies, Equestria is in your hooves, but before you go take him with you" said Celestia gesturing to a hallway to her right. CLANG, CLANG, CLANG, CLANG. Me and my friends look over to the hallway hearing odd clanging hoofsteps. 'What could that be, it doesn't sound like one of the pony guards' thought Twilight. Just then a dark figure walked into view, all the while its hoofsteps making the sound, CLANG, CLANG, CLANG. We all looked at it with a bit of fear and astonishment. It was tall, it had short, spiky black hair on its head, and dark sunglasses. It had a long flowing coat, black shirt and pants. It also had knee high black boots with metal soles on the bottom, from which the clanging must be originating from. We all watched as this thing approached us. Once it was a few feet away, it stopped and looked at all of us. "This is them" it asked gesturing at us. "Yes, they are the ones" said Celestia. "I'd assumed they'd be taller" it said. "My little ponies I'd like to introduce you to" said Celestia. "Mamoru Shinigami, most call me The Dark One, nice to meet you all, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash" it said interrupting Princess Celestia. We all just stared at him. "Um... nice to meet you mister Shinigami" I said. "Please, just call me Mamoru" said Mamoru. "Mamoru has been waiting to meet you all in person for quite a while" said Princess Celestia. "Um if it aint much trouble, may ah ask what exactly is he" asked Applejack. ---Mamoru POV--- "I'm glad you asked" I said in my best gameshow host voice while flying around. "For those of you who enjoy reading, my species origins comes from another world which by the way is completely devoid of magic, my world's name is Earth, and scientists are still speculating how old it really is, but what we do know is, this" I said. (view video link below) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcgX2HM16k "But if you want more info than that, i can tell you this way" I said. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpOb4Pdeqqk "Anyway to sum all that up, humans or homo sapiens, are a form of primate that stand upright and have the mental capacity to learn, create, destroy, and express themselves. And we have been around for about 2 million years, and have become the dominant race on Earth" I said with a triumphant look on my face. "Although recently humans have been destroying the world, by pollution and global warming, and a few others I can't think of right now" I said deflated. They just stood there and stared "what are we still standing around for we got work to do" I said running out of the room. "You girls coming or not!?!" I yelled looking back. "Right!" They said in unison. 'This is going to be awesome!' I thought to myself. ---A few hours later in the labyrinth--- "I forgot how boring this was" I said aloud. I then looked up to see Rainbow Dash flying away. "Well, seems like game over and showtime" I said to myself, with a grin. The walls of the maze came down and out popped Discord. "Game's over my Little ponies, you didn't find your precious elements, looks like we're in for a grat big storm of chaos" Said Discord, laughing maniacally. "Not if I can help it" I said. "Oh, I don't believe that you can" said Discord. "Oh, yeah and what are you going to do, impale me?" I asked as he did just that. I looked down at my chest and there was an invisible thing lodged in my chest and going out the back, I could feel the chaos magic flowing into me, making our deal final. "Cough, cough, Well played" I said falling backwards coughing up blood and bleeding out. While Discord left in a puff. ---Twilight POV--- "Mamoru!" I said running up to Mamoru's fallen form. I got to him and held him in my hooves. "Come on Mamoru, stay with me!" I told him. He looked at me then took his sunglasses off and for the first time I saw his eyes, they were black pools with green rings in the center. At first I was scared and started to move away. He grabbed me. "Don't......... go....... stay....... with me....... please" he said with pain in his eyes. "Ok, I will, I will" I said to him. Then he let go of me and I saw his eyes go completely black, he was dead. "No, no, no, come on Mamoru! Don't go!" I said crying. He just sat there, dead. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo!"